Hip-hop King is in da’ house

One of the country’s foremost hip-hop artists plays Queenstown this Saturday.

Samoan musician King Kapisi – aka Bill Urale – leads an impressive line-up at Subculture for a gig coinciding with the one-year anniversary of local Jackie Guy’s Still Vision Photography. The venue opens to the public from 10pm.

Kapisi has been a fixture on the national hip-hop scene since becoming the first Polynesian artist to win the Australasian Performing Rights Association Silver Scroll Award for Song­writer of the Year for single Reverse Resistance in 1999.